Well, tonight
I went down in flames against Big Fur Hat in
iOwnTheWorld’sCage Match
No. 5. He is an awesome opponent and
is certainly deserving of the win. I
want to thank everyone who has been supportive of my entries.

iOTW continues
to run cage matches to determine which website has created the best
conservative agitprop for the year in an effort to present the winner with the
coveted PUK
Award.

The contest
began with 28 finalists and now the contestants have been whittled down to 16.

Cage Match No. 6 is
going on right now through 8PM ET tomorrow. Each cage match
begins at 8PM ET every night and will last for 24 hours.

I’ll be
returning to work tomorrow after a glorious week of Christmas vacation and the
updates I’ve promised to give you will be later than usual, probably posted
after midnight. Please check iOwnTheWorld’s site for the next cage
match. If I have an entry, won’t you
please give me a “thumbs up”?

Randy Hall,
writing atNewsbusters
opines, “Just when it seemed that the controversy over gun control based on
remarks from Piers Morgan couldn't get any stranger, the CNN weeknight talk
show host wrote a
lengthy article for the UK's Daily
Mail newspaper in which he made a bizarre threat.

“In
conclusion, I can spare those Americans who want me deported a lot of effort by
saying this: If you don’t change your gun laws to at least try to stop this
relentless tidal wave of murderous carnage, then you don’t have to worry about
deporting me.”

“Although I
love the country as a second home and one that has treated me incredibly well,
I would…seriously consider deporting myself.”

Your offer is
accepted without reservation. Is there a
PayPal account where we can donate funds to send you on your way you big tease?

I was on Twitter this morning and ran across a tweet from Ari Fleischer and his pejorative about The New York Times caught my eye. “NYT op-ed runs hit pieces on Black Republicans and now the Constitution. The poor Gray Lady has grown senile.”

In a 1516 word screed penned by Louis Michael Seidman, we learn that the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University is lending his pedigree to a movement to subvert the Constitution by our sanctimonious betters.

A Harvard Law grad and clerk for former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, this well-heeled professor is entrenched in the Left’s paradigm that the Constitution is an obstacle to their desire to delegitimize the founding document blithely suggesting it is, “a poetic piece of parchment.”

“As the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken. But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions.”

[SNIP]

“Our obsession with the Constitution has saddled us with a dysfunctional political system, kept us from debating the merits of divisive issues and inflamed our public discourse. Instead of arguing about what is to be done, we argue about what James Madison might have wanted done 225 years ago.

[SNIP]

“What has preserved our political stability is not a poetic piece of parchment, but entrenched institutions and habits of thought and, most important, the sense that we are one nation and must work out our differences. No one can predict in detail what our system of government would look like if we freed ourselves from the shackles of constitutional obligation, and I harbor no illusions that any of this will happen soon. But even if we can’t kick our constitutional-law addiction, we can soften the habit.”

“If we acknowledged what should be obvious—that much constitutional language is broad enough to encompass an almost infinitely wide range of positions—we might have a very different attitude about the obligation to obey. It would become cred
text or our core commitments. Instead, we are all invoking a common vocabulary
to express aspirations that, at the broadest level, everyone can embrace. Of
course, that does not mean that people agree at the ground level. If we are not
to abandon constitutionalism entirely, then we might at least understand it as
a place for discussion, a demand that we make a good-faith effort to understand
the views of others, rather than as a tool to force others to give up their
moral and political judgments.”

“If even this
change is impossible, perhaps the dream of a country ruled by “We the people”
is impossibly utopian. If so, we have to give up on the claim that we are a
self-governing people who can settle our disagreements through mature and
tolerant debate. But before abandoning our heritage of self-government, we
ought to try extricating ourselves from constitutional bondage so that we can
give real freedom a chance.”

Incidentally,
Professor Seidman has a book nearing publication entitled “On Constitutional Disobedience.”
Not having the text before me to read, I can imagine his sincere aim
will be to persuade, by leftist pretzel logic, that it doesn’t matter what the Constitution
says. Undoubtedly a certain Mr. Marx would have been thrilled to sit at his breakfast table this morning and read such bilge.

Karl Marx had
a vitriolic distaste towards a bourgeois capitalist society and fervently endorsed
a future communist society. The Communist Manifestobegins with the assertion, "The
history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class
struggles." Marx argued that if you are to understand human history you
must not see it as the story of great individuals or the conflict between
states. Instead, you must see it as the story of social classes and their
struggles with each other.

The greatest risk
to our Constitution does not come from foreign governments, terrorism or
unscrupulous politicians. The greatest risk is ignorance. Ignorance of how it
was conceived, what it says, and how crucial it is to our freedom. To quote Benjamin Franklin, “A
Republic, if you can keep it.”

“Christmas is
over. Chances are you still have your tree up, but sooner or later you're going
to have to get rid of it. Sure you could unceremoniously toss its naked corpse
into the street, but you could also turn it into a crazy rocket. Then again,
you probably shouldn't, but if you did it might go something like this.”

Politics is
not a playground, it’s a battlefield. Here are a few links from
conservative bloggers who are waging a war of words against the misanthropy,
priggishness, prejudice, luddism, illiberalism and irrationalism of the
mainstream media bobble-head dolls and groupthink poodles of the press corps.

I see
horrifyingly evil “opinions” expressed by fellow Americans every day on
Twitter, and in comment sections of blogs. They
don’t just disagree with conservatives—they want us to shut up, lose our
jobs, be financially ruined, or to drop dead. They actually root
for Republicans to die, and when they do die, the ghouls celebrate their
deaths. Not just one or two weirdos engage in this behavior—huge packs of
them do.

Candy
cigarettes, bubble gum cigars and bubble gum made to look like chewing tobacco
have been among a host of vintage sugary treats that a St. Paul “back-in-the-day”
soda shop has kept in stock since it opened in April.

According to
the Star Tribune, Lynden’s Soda
Fountain pulled the
fake smokes after officials said the store would face a misdemeanor citation
and a $500 fine for noncompliance.

How
would a pencil pusher from the city’s Safety and Inspections Department flush
out the offending shop owner’s candy cigarettes?

"Somebody
from Bloomington called and reported us," the shop’s owner Tobi Lynden
said. "The whole thing is pretty weird."

Sunday, December 30, 2012

For the last
couple of days I’ve let you guys know that iOwnTheWorld is running cage matches to determine which
website had created the best conservative agitprop for the year in an effort to
present the winner with the coveted PUK
Award.

The contest
began with 28 finalists and now it’s down to 18.

Yesterday’s
cage match was between my friend The Looking Spoon and me. TLS creates some of the very best graphics in
the conservative blogosphere. I consider
myself very lucky to have won Cage
Match No. 4. It would not have been
possible without your support and The Looking Spoon’s generous linkage. I’d also like to thank Dave Blount at Moonbattery for linking to my work
in Cage Match #5.

Cage Match No. 5 is
going on right now through 8PM ET
tomorrow. Each cage match begins at 8PM ET every night and will last for
24 hours.

New York City
Mayor Nanny Bloomberg warned city residents not to feel unsafe after a
suspected murder at a subway station, claiming one sensational event does not
negate the downward trend of homicide in the region.

Apparently at
no time during the presser did El Bloombito demand that guard rails be
installed or discuss the possibility of taking other precautions. He was more interested in hyping the new
historic lows in the Big Apple’s annual homicide and shooting totals. Are
you paying attention Mayor Emanuel?

You can be certain that the wee billionaire mayor
doesn’t give a fig about his city’s subway riders. After all, he rides comfortably in a
bullet-proof limo surrounded by armed guards.
The subways are for the little people.

I guess the good people of New York are stuck with ‘ol
Bloomers as long as he can buy the office of Mayor. The poor things.

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Yesterday I
let you guys know that iOwnTheWorld
was running cage matches to determine which website had created the best
conservative agitprop for the year in an effort to present the winner with the
coveted PUK
Award.

The contest
began with 28 finalists and now it’s down to 20. I had been hoping one of
my creations would make the cut. Lo and behold, today that burning
question has been answered. One of my
entries is in Cage Match No. 4.

Cage Match No. 4 is going on
right now through 8PM ET tomorrow. Each
cage match begins at 8PM ET every night and will last for 24 hours.

Dominican
Today
and Human
Events are both reporting that Cigar Boy and Billary will be “enjoying
their year-end vacation in Punta Cana, in the eastern coast of the Dominican
Republic.”

Press reports state that the recently ill (ahem) Hillary and the
perpetually randy Bill will be staying at the well-appointed Puntacana Resort
& Club, home to the Caribbean’s ultimate beach and golfing experience.

It is rumored that they may both attend a fashion show held in
honor of “famous Dominican designer” Oscar de la Renta.

Besides the Hillbillies, other jetsetters who will be at the
resort are the lisping dimbulb Barbara Walters, Vogue editor and possible
Ambassador to Paris Anna Wintour and Spanish actress Mar Flores and her hubby
Javier Merino.

There’s
nothing like the salt air and tropical breezes to help you forget your
troubles. Oh, wait. She’s already forgotten them. Convenient concussion, you know.

At the stroke
of midnight in the toddling town of Chicago, will the sounds of celebration
that ring in 2013 be the sound of firecrackers or the sounds of a thug drilling
someone full of holes?

The Windy City
passed the unfortunate marker of 500 murders on December 27th when Nathaniel Jackson,
a 40-year-old man with gang affiliations and a rap sheet longer than your arm,
was shot and killed just months after finishing time in the crowbar hotel.

Mayor Rahm
Emanuel, who had pledged to address the city’s crime problem when he took
office in 2011, attributed the rise in homicides, in part, to a broader problem
with illegal guns.

"Chicago
has reached an unfortunate and tragic milestone, which not only marks a
needless loss of life but serves as a reminder of the damage that illegal guns
and conflicts between gangs cause in our neighborhoods," Emanuel said. [Not
Rahmbo’s pithiest statement to be sure, but it seems this is a crisis he fully
intends to let go to waste.]

Mark
Wachtler has a hard-hitting piece at the Examiner in which he contends that Chicago officials are deflecting
blame for the city’s epidemic of murders.

“It’s ironic
that the city’s highest ranking official would lay 100% of the blame for the
spike in murders on two inanimate objects, when statistics are suggesting the
murder rate may be at least partly tied to corruption inside the Mayor’s own
City Hall.”

“It wouldn’t
be the first time. One example is when Chicago transitioned from “the bloody
‘80’s” into the 1990’s, a decade even more deadly. The spike in homicides also
coincidentally correlates with the election of the city’s new Mayor at the
time, Richard Daley. As corruption spread, the homicide rate skyrocketed.”

[SNIP]

“Mayor Emanuel
and the city were just humiliated over the past two weeks when a separate trial
ruled that the Chicago Police Department is corrupt to its core, from top to
bottom, and enlists a mandated “code
of silence” that exists specifically to protect crooked cops and criminals
within the city’s police force and City Hall.”

In the
aftermath of the Newtown school slayings, there have been incessant and verbose
discussions about gun control. Rahmbo
and his corrupt police department can blame gun and street gangs for the
mounting murder rate, but
it is the mayor himself who has added to problem.

The moment he
took office two years ago, he split up the gang crimes special units and put
them on street patrol. Rather than
hiring additional cops to fill a shortage of law enforcement officers he
transferred crossing guards and office workers to patrol the streets. By doing so, Rahmbo’s City Hall could boast
that it had increased the numbers of the Chicago Police Department. Police union officials came to call this
deception the “Emanuel
Shuffle.”

The “Democratic Machine” went to work in early 2011 when
then-Mayor Richard Daley refused to renew or extend the contract of Jody Weis,
who two years before had been hired by Daley to “clean up the corruption in
Chicago’s police department.”

Weis, a former FBI police officer, did what we was hired to do. He demoted corrupt police commanders
and replaced them with officers he believed were honest. To show just how
rampant the corruption was, Weis removed 21 of 25 district commanders, as well
as a number of top brass. And while the rank and file officers complained about
his crime fighting within the force, Chicago’s murder rate dropped to the
lowest level since 1965.

This
put Weis at odds with the entire police force and City Hall. He was replaced by Terry
Hillard, the former Police Superintendent and a favorite of the police force and
“The Machine.”

It seems
appropriate to quote famous Chicago mobster Al Capone who once said, "I
got nothing against the honest cop on the beat. You just have them transferred
someplace where they can't do you any harm. But don't ever talk to me about the
honor of police captains or judges. If they couldn't be bought they wouldn't
have the job."

Washington Post Columnist Charles Krauthammer
has suggested
that going over the "dairy cliff" might have an upside:

"I do
think if we went over the milk cliff it would actually be a good idea. [If]
people actually saw the milk price double, it would be less abstract than
watching a debt clock. They would finally understand that we have the insane laws
that acquire barnacles over the decades. And the farm laws are the worst. They
are all kind of pressure, special interest favors, pay offs which make no
economic sense. I'd like to wipe them out and start all over again, and it
would be good if the law expired. People would actually be awakened to how
insane our system is and how much we really need tax reform. It wouldn't be an
abstraction, it would be real."

Federal law
puts a giant safety net under the dairy industry by promising that if the price
of milk collapses, the government will swoop in and push it back up by buying
mass quantities of dairy products. The goal is to make sure that the farmers
are paid somewhere close to what it should cost them to produce the milk, a
figure that's determined by a complex formula.

Usually, dairies can earn plenty
selling their product on the open market, and the government doesn't need to
intervene. But the 1949 law getting ready to kick back in, bases its formula
for the cost of milk production on how the industry worked in the early 20th
century, when it was far less efficient than today. As a result, it will
automatically force the government to start paying a giant premium for milk
products, which will then cause prices to jump for everyone else as well.

Don’t think
for a moment you can avert the so-called “dairy cliff” by stocking up on
powdered milk or almond milk or soy milk.
It’s all milk-based.What’s next? Oreos?

That giant
sucking sound you hear isn’t just the milking machine hooked up to the udders
of cows; it’s going to be hooked up to our wallets relieving us of its contents. Thanks you miserable POS congresscritters.

I promised to
keep you up-to-date on the cage matches going on over at iOwnTheWorld for the
best conservative agitprop of 2012 that will culminate in awarding the best
example with the vaunted PUK Award.

We are now in
the throes of Cage Match No. 3
where two of my very favorites are going head-to-head: Diogenes and The Looking Spoon.

Washington (CNN) —Less
than two weeks after one of the nation's deadliest school shootings, the No.2
Democrat in the U.S. House, Steny Hoyer, compared Republican tactics for
dealing with the nation's debt limit to someone threatening to shoot a child
hostage.

"It's
somewhat like taking your child hostage and saying to somebody else, 'I'm going
to shoot my child if you don't do what I want done.' You don't want to shoot
your child. There's no Republican leader that wants to default on our debt that
I’ve talked to" Hoyer said at a Capitol Hill press conference.

Obviously, the
image associated with this post is a Photoshop™ of the profoundly foolish
73-year-old addlebrainboneheaddimwitpinhead cretin
who’s been representing the Great State of Maryland for 31 years. Hoyer provides the perfect argument for term
limits and regular tests for signs of the onset of Alzheimers and, perhaps, an IQ test. Never take your eyes off the mumbling, bumbling bum.

Thursday, December 27, 2012

In this July
4, 1991 file photo, President George H. W. Bush congratulates Desert Storm commander
Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf after presenting him with the medal of freedom at the
White House in Washington. Schwarzkopf died Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012 in Tampa,
Fla. He was 78. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)

For H. Norman
Schwarzkopf, West Point took phrases learnt at the knee of his father, an Army
general, and turned them into principles. "When I began as a plebe, 'Duty,
Honor, Country' was just a motto I'd heard from Pop," the two-tour Vietnam
vet and Desert Storm commander later wrote. "By the time I left, those
values had become my fixed stars.”

Born in
Trenton, N.J. on Aug. 22, 1934, Schwarzkopf spent much of his high school years
following his father's career around the world. After graduating from West
Point in 1956, he embarked on the career that would earn him four-star rank and
high distinction, including three Silver Stars, three Bronze Stars, two Purple
hearts, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He moved up from platoon leader
to corps commander, maintaining the common-sense attitude that earned his
troop's plaudits as a "muddy-boots soldier.”

Vietnam forged
his philosophy of war. In-country from 1965 to 1966 and again from 1969 to
1970, he was angered by the lack of support at home and "distressed by the
war's toll on morale and morality," one journalist wrote.
"Schwarzkopf felt shame when, under protest, he tallied “body counts’ he
knew to be inflated.”

But the
experience reinforced his determination to stay with the Army. Schwarzkopf wrote,
"There were some times [in Vietnam] when I would think to myself…"how
did I get involved in this?...And I came to understand that that's the thing
I've been trained for all of my life.
And if I didn’t do it, who was going to do it?”

By 1988, he was
a four-star general, appointed commander-in-chief of the U.S. Central Command
responsible for military operations in the Middle East. When Iraq occupied the
neighboring state of Kuwait in August 1990, Schwarzkopf directed a troop
buildup of 700,000 U.S., European, and Arab troops. On Jan. 16, 1991, allied
forces began a six-week air bombardment of Iraq, followed by a 100-hour ground
campaign that retook Kuwait with low allied casualties.

By war's end,
the familiar 6'3" bearlike figure in desert fatigues had become a national
hero. But a second, very real victory was at home. Of the Washington victory
parade, Schwarzkopf wrote, "I couldn't help but think to myself this is
the right way to come home to your country. . .the country was paying us this
wonderful tribute... and it tended to exorcise a lot of ghosts and a lot of
wounds that all of us who were in Vietnam carried with us."

Today, we
learn that “Stormin’ Norman” Schwarzkopf has died in Tampa where he was living
in retirement. The cause of his death has
not yet been released.

Following is a
statement approved by President George H. W. Bush, who remains in intensive care at
Methodist Hospital, on the passing of General Schwarzkopf:

“Barbara and I
mourn the loss of a true American patriot and one of the great military leaders
of his generation. A distinguished member of that Long Gray Line hailing from
West Point, General Norm Schwarzkopf, to me, epitomized the ‘duty, service,
country’ creed that has defended our freedom and seen this great Nation through
our most trying international crises. More than that, he was a good and decent
man—and a dear friend. Barbara and I send our condolences to his wife Brenda
and his wonderful family.”

On December 12th
I put up a post about The
2012 PUK Awards nominations. The
award is presented to the conservative website with the best graphic creations,
also known as agitprop, used to influence and mobilize public opinion.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Dylan Byers, one of the groupthink poodles
over at Politico (I refuse to link that site), priggishly wrote as only Dylan
can, “NBC's David Gregory, the subject of a now-popular police
investigation, is on vacation and will not host this Sunday's edition of Meet
the Press."

“The
Washington Metropolitan Police Department launched an investigation this week
into whether Gregory and NBC violated city laws when he displayed what appeared
to be a gun magazine on last week's show. Today, the police issued a statement,
saying NBC had been told before last Sunday's show that it was ‘not permissible’
to show a high-capacity gun magazine on air.”

“Gregory's
vacation was scheduled prior to last week's show, according to NBC. [Sure it
was.] He is scheduled to host the Jan. 5 edition of Meet the Press." [He
will if he’s not still on the lam.]

NBC News has
declined to comment on the investigation. Clearly the Peacock Network’s shyster lawyers
are stalling for time to see if they can conjure up some sort of journalistic
privilege loophole. They can’t have
their precious end up in prison wearing a red wig and being forced to be
mindful when bending over to pick up the soap he dropped in the shower.

The bottom
line on the Gregory swirl is the DC cops have every right to know how he got
his hands on both of the magazines he waved in front of the NRA’s Wayne
LaPierre and what has happened to them since the show.

I’m sure you
already know that Mr. “Subject of A Now-Popular Police Investigation” sends his
kids to a Washington-area school protected by armed guards; the
same school, incidentally, that his O’liness’s kids go to. Oh. The. Irony.

“Mr. Gregory’s
journalistic irresponsibility is one of the reasons why I’m pushing for a
high-capacity magazine ban. No one has any legitimate reason to need a copy of Mother Jones, The New Republic, or Time with
more than 10 pages.”

And his
believers’ minds were without form, and void; and awe-struck looks were upon
the faces of the asleep. And the Spirit of Obama moved upon the faces of the
believers.

And Obama
said, Let there be debt: and there was debt.

We learn today
that the Chicago Messiah plans
to return early from his annual vacation to Hawaii in order to take part in
talks to avert the fiscal cliff.
Congress is also due to return to the capital on Thursday.

“God only
knows” how a deal can be reached now, said Speaker John Boehner.

Taxes would
jump $2,400 on average for families with incomes of $50,000 to $75,000,
according to a study by the non-partisan Tax Policy Center. Because consumers
would get less of their paychecks to spend, businesses and jobs would suffer.

At the same
time, Americans would feel cuts in government services; some federal workers
would be furloughed or laid off, and companies would lose government business.
The nation would lose up to 3.4 million jobs, the Congressional Budget Office
predicts.

Several tax
breaks begun in 2009 to stimulate the economy by aiding low and middle-income
families are also set to expire at the beginning of 2013. For example, the alternative minimum tax would expand to catch 28 million more
taxpayers, with an average increase of $3,700 a year. Taxes on investments would rise, too. More deaths would be covered
by the federal estate tax, and the
rate climbs from 35 percent to 55 percent. Some corporate tax breaks would end.

If the nation
goes over the fiscal cliff, budget cuts of 8 percent or 9 percent would hit
most of the federal government, touching all sorts of things from agriculture
to law enforcement and the military to weather forecasting. A few areas, such
as Social Security benefits, Veterans Affairs and some programs for the poor,
are exempt.

The
New York Times has an article in today’s paper that cites noted
research economists at the Bank for International Settlements, Stephen
Cecchetti and Fabrizio Zampoli. They
say, “The United States, along with the rest of the industrialized West, has
been on an unsustainable fiscal path for decades.” They predict that unless radical
reforms are adopted the public debt will exceed 400% of GDP.

Such debt
levels are wildly implausible, as creditors would likely stop lending to
Western governments long before such levels are reached. Some politicians and
economists may want to put a fig leaf on it, but the projections by Cecchetti
and others mean that the West is effectively bankrupt.

I’d like to
personally thank all those f%#king low-information
voters for perpetuating this financial morass by re-electing The Protector
of the People as Long As They Know Their Place and Belong to The Right Unions.

“And there
were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over
their flock by night. And, lo, the angel
of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them:
and they were sore afraid. And the angel
said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy,
which shall be to all people. For unto
you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall
find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a
multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, ‘Glory to God in the
highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.’”

“And it came
to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said
one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is
come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us. And they came with haste, and found Mary, and
Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. And
when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them
concerning this child. And all they that
heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.”

The tender
mood that claims us today when we are touched by old memories and the gladness
of home and the simple delights of children; the angels “bending near the earth
to touch their harps of gold” and the shepherds and the Christchild of the
beautiful story told to us in Luke 2:8-18 somehow doesn’t seem so far away.

It was
December 24, 1998 when columnist George F. Will opined about “The
Happiest Holiday”. In his piece
he observed, “On Christmas Eve, at the end of the rarely stately and always
arduous march that Americans make each year to the happiest holiday, it
sometimes seems that they are supposed to celebrate Christmas as though they
have agreed to forget what supposedly it means.”

Christmas has
not lost its meaning. Don’t let anyone
try to convince you otherwise.

For centuries
we have taught our children about the wonder of Christmas through symbols and
traditions like the fir tree, an evergreen which symbolizes the everlasting
hope of mankind.

There’s the
star we place atop the tree; a sign of God’s promise of a Saviour.

We teach our
children that the candle symbolizes Christ who is the light of the world and
the wreath is a reminder that love never ceases because it is a perfect
circle. The holly leaf represents the
crown of thorns worn by our Lord and the red holly berries represent the blood
He shed at His crucifixion.

The candy
canes we place in their stockings symbolize the shepherd’s hook and reminds us
that we are our brother’s keeper.

The angel we
hang on the branch of the tree is meant to remind us that they were the ones
who heralded the news of our Saviour’s birth.

The sound of
the bell teaches our children about guidance and the return of lost sheep.

The gifts that
we give are a symbol of God’s indescribable gift. This is the heart of Christmas. God loved us
enough to send his only begotten Son.

Santa Claus is
not the center of our celebration, he is merely the humble servant of the One
that is.